On the third Wednesday of each month Iasa hosts a Virtual Conference that runs on a real-time schedule. This month’s eSummit, occurring April 20th, features highly recognized subject matter experts in Business Architecture.
Interactive webcasts are offered in real-time, while presenter show visuals such as PowerPoint slides and desktop applications. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the presenters in real time. See below for this month’s speakers and topics.
Speakers
Michael Poulin
8:00 AMArchitecture of Business in a Dynamic Market
Click HERE to learn moreJudith Oja-Gillam
9:00 AMUnderstanding Business Architecture
Click HERE to learn moreDoug Brown
10:00 AMArchitecture Adding Value
Click HERE to learn moreAtiogbe Didier Koffi
11:00 AMTRIADS - The Chemistry of Business Architecture
Click HERE to learn moreMary Sue Moore
12:00 PMOne Size Does Not Fit All, a Business Case Study in Flexibility
Click HERE to learn moreDave Shepherdson
1:00 PMBusiness Architecture and Agile - how to ensure alignment and value realization
Click HERE to learn moreMark Pearson
2:00 PMA Lean Start-up Approach to Business Architecture
Click HERE to learn moreAlexander Samarin
3:00 PMBusiness architecture from the enterprise architecture point of view
Click HERE to learn moreDinesh Kumar
4:00 PMPlanning and Managing Business Architecture for Sustainable Advantage
Click HERE to learn moreTravis Cain
5:00 PMBusiness Architecture and how it enables Business Transformation
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Dinesh Kumar
Dinesh Kumar, CTO and Capability Engineer at Mitovia, is driving practical, business-minded, knowledge-driven frameworks, solutions and services for digital advantage, risk resilience and organizational capability improvements. He is also a Principal at the Innovation Value Institute, leading development of capability models and next practices in managing IT for business value. He has a patent pending on capability-driven, service-oriented IT management. As an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dinesh teaches Technology Business Management and Process Innovation courses to MBA and MSIS students. Previously he has held various sales, consulting and IT management roles at Microsoft, Informix and Unisys. Dinesh has an MBA degree from Penn State University and MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Planning and Managing Business Architecture for Sustainable Advantage
In pursuit of modeling the business architecture and transforming the business, most organizations are constrained by-design. Following the crowd and chasing shiny objects are temporary pain relievers. For a sustainable advantage in the age of digital business, we need to think differently and do things differently.
How can an organization anticipate trends and plan the future. How can we know what we don’t know? How do you enable organizational learning? How do you ensure business and IT alignment?
Describing business architecture in terms of people, process, information and technologies is necessary, but not sufficient. It is a set of capabilities that makes one organization different from others. It would make sense to start with the capability architecture. You might have used maturity models for assessment and benchmarking. In this session, you will learn how capability maturity models, I call them capability maps, can be effective in articulating current and next state of business architecture, understanding and addressing dependencies, managing change, communicating value, developing roadmaps and monitoring progress.
Atiogbe Didier Koffi
Atiogbe Didier Koffi has 20 years of professional experience as a Business Architect and Business Systems Analyst Consultant. He has offered consulting services to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Labor, Leading Biomedical Research and Development Organizations, Leading Pay-Media Companies, Fortune 100 Healthcare Organizations, and Fortune 100 Retailers. He is a Published Author with Wiley’s Systems Engineering Journal and the Journal of Enterprise Architecture. His consulting services include a cutting edge 3-Day Business Model Assessment workshop based on the EBMM TRIADS™
TRIADS – The Chemistry of Business Architecture
This presentation tackles the number one issue faced by most organizations:the Alignment of Business and IT. We present a Business Architecture meta-model called the EBMM TRIADS™ and its application to aligning an organization’s Business Motivation, Business Strategy, Business Responsibilities, and Business Operation. The TRIADS can provide a solid reference for a qualitative and quantitative characterization of the Alignment achieved by an organization through its existing and targeted Business Architectures.
Doug Brown
Dr. Douglas Brown helps organizations kick the habit of under-performing processes and failing projects. A former Army officer, he holds a doctorate in public policy and is the author of Let It SImmer, a book on implementing project, portfolio and program management (www.simmer-system.com). In 20+ years managing and consulting with private-sector and government organizations, he has saved tens of millions of dollars by bringing contracts and processes under control and hundreds of millions of dollars in program savings. Residents of Alexandria, Virginia; he and his wife enjoy live arts and dogs, and hope someday to spend more time and less money on their boat.
Architecture Adding Value: Three ways to gain credibility by helping the business solve problems it cares about
Surveys show that most mid- to large-size business are on their 2nd and 3rd try at enterprise architecture (EA), and still aren’t making much progress. All too often, executives see highly paid people drawing pictures that nobody looks at. What EA need to do is help the business draw some conclusions and to see the big picture. In this session, Dr. Douglas Brown will explain how to select an architectural framework and three ways of using the business layer of the architecture to solve actual business problems. Once that happens, EA has more freedom to explore the deeper layers of the architecture and more complex inter-relationships, delivering even greater benefits to a more receptive audience.
Mary Sue Moore
As the Principal Business Architect for Asurion, Mary Sue Moore is committed to providing value to the business through understanding and transparency which aligns business and technology teams.
She has integrated business process architecture through business capability, product, and process modeling, model management, and discipline definition for Model Driven BPM-SOA.
Mary Sue has also been a Process Definition Consultant, Project Manager, and Software/System Engineer.
Along with device and data protection insurance, her background includes commercial finance, telephony, healthcare insurance, Space Station controls, and electrical/transportation controls.
Mary Sue is an alum of Western Carolina University, University of Central Florida, and Ithaca College.
She and her partner Chris live near Nashville, TN. Mary Sue is a knitting instructor and enjoys music concerts, live theater, and international travel to visit family and learn about different cultures.
One Size Does Not Fit All, a Business Case Study in Flexibility
There are sixty-seven different ways to ‘do’ Business Architecture: 3 really bad ways, 3 pretty good ways, and sixty run-of-the-mill ways. The last way is appropriate for your consumer. While having the best, most complete Business Architecture practices and data is an end goal, being flexible enough to provide value to your consumer today is key to your continued success. This presentation describes some challenges and some successes we have with different dimensions of EBA and how we’ve adapted along this journey at Asurion.
Judith Oja
Judith Oja-Gillam has over 30 years of business experience across multiple geographies and organizational cultures in Financial Services, Insurance, Government, Healthcare, addressing the transformational requirements of today’s business agenda. The past 15 years have been focused on leading organizations to deploy Business Architecture, as a significant enabler to business capability, quickly and holistically understanding the impact of strategic initiatives, business environment and challenges, prioritizing capital spend and enabling the alignment of strategic roadmaps.
Understanding Business Architecture
At Enterprise Architects, and From Here On, our belief is Business Architecture is the design of business. Failure points between strategy and implementation are many. So we begin with an understanding of market facing business problems, and drivers, to establish consensus for strategy, define a common reference point, take a coherent approach and build strategically aligned roadmaps to solve for the business problem. In this regard we give strategic business objectives, and goals, greater clarity to operationalize and avoid the risky leap from strategy to specific project investments. The E2E methodology produces business capability and performance based roadmaps off the back of the business architecture. In effect, taking most of the guess work out of the question “What are we going to do this year?”
Dave Sheperdson
Dave Shepherdson has over 30 years Information Technology experience encompassing Data, Application, Solution and Business architecture both in the Enterprise and domain space.
His focus has always been to realize tangible, verifiable business value to the corporations. These include companies listed in Fortune 1000 and Fortune 50.
Business Architecture and Agile – how to ensure alignment and value realization.
Companies need to drive value to stakeholders at an increasing pace. Agile provides the necessary framework for rapid execution and the delivery of incremental value. Business Architecture is perceived as a impediment to the process and not providing value to the execution teams.
Based on experience, Dave will present a Business Architecture and Agile approach which has proven to work.
Mark Pearson
Mark Pearson is Senior Vice President, Operations IT and Architecture, where he is responsible for IT Delivery and Architecture for Enterprise Operations. Mr. Pearson has been with SunTrust since 2004, where he has held various software delivery, architecture, and business planning management roles in Enterprise Information Services including the roles of Chief Architect and Director of Innovation and Strategy. Prior to SunTrust, Mr.Pearson was with S1 Corporation where he held various senior technical and business roles including CTO and VP of Corporate Development, a senior member of technical staff at IBM Corporation (Transarc), and a consulting practice manager for Gartner. Mark holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Technology Association of Georgia Finch and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Georgia.
A Lean Start-up Approach to Business Architecture
Starting or reviving a business architecture practice within a large company implies a unique set of challenges for architecture leadership. In this talk, we discuss a lean start-up approach for the practice of business architecture that identifies business gap areas that if focused on, will lead to the most rapid demonstration of business value. Throughout, we use examples gleaned from a large financial institution, and describe how this approach is relevant for most medium and large business organizations.
Dr. Alexander Samarin
Alexander Samarin wrote his first software program in the year 1973. He obtained a PhD (in computer graphics) in the year 1986. He has worked for a variety of international clients in Switzerland, UK, France, Australia and Africa. He specializes in architecture, implementation and evolution of enterprise-wide solutions with the holistic use of enterprise architecture, business architecture, BPM, SOA, ECM, IT governance and IT strategy. In October 2009 he published a book “Improving enterprise business process management systems”. Since August 2013 he works as a consulting enterprise architect with a specialization in business and application architectures.
Business architecture from the enterprise architecture point of view
In the modern world of digital transformation and innovation, the speed of change is permanently increasing. Therefore the focus of enterprise architecture needs to shift from the description of individual independent artifacts to the management of their life cycles, and beyond to the management of the evolution of all artifacts as a whole.
This presentation will discuss how several modern techniques, such as architecture viewpoints, patterns, and machine-executable models, can be combined to improve a business architecture’s ability to manage business artifacts and thus to improve an enterprise’s ability to adapt to new business models and business challenges.
Michael Poulin
Michael Poulinis a Head of Enterprise Architecture at Clingstone Ltd. – the consulting firm focusing on the business change management as well as on the enterprise and solutions architecture. He has built up a wealth of experience in architecture in the UK and United States for a couple of dozen years. His work focuses on bridging the gap between business architecture and modern technology.
Michael is a Board member of the Business Architecture Society and for many years Member of the OASIS SOA-RM Technical Committee; he has co-authored the RAF for SOA standard specification. Michael is a solo author of three books aimed Business Architecture in conjunction with orientation on service – ”Ladder to SOE”, “Architects Know What Managers Don’t: Business Architecture for Dynamic Market” and “Business Capability in Dynamic Market”; he is one of the co-authors of the book “Business and Dynamic Change: The Arrival of Business Architecture“. Michael writes BLOGs in LinkedIn, ebizQ, and his own site (www.mpoulin.com), publishes White Papers (www.orbussoftware.com) and articles (www.InfoQ.com).
Michael reads courses on the topics of Architecture of Business and Orientation on Service for architects and organisation decision-makers. He can be reached via michael.poulin@clingstone.co.uk.
Basis elements of theory and practice of Architecture of Business (AoB)
The presentation addresses basis elements of theory and practice of Architecture of Business (AoB) based on the Theory of Systems/System Thinking. Any system of a business organisation has its architecture regardless the awareness or opinions of the organisation’s managers. In a successful organisation, the Executives intuitively follow this system’s architecture with or without dedicated role of Business Architect. The speaker will observe four fundamental aspects of AoB: Intrinsic Business Architecture, Practice of Business Architects, Architectural Governing and Management, and Architecture Implementation scheme.
The audience will learn about:
a) Architectural specifics of the dynamics of the context in which a business organisation operates and has to operate in the future
b) A meaning of “can do” business capability, its model and consequences for the planning and organising the work of business organisation
c) 10 Principles of Architecture of Business
d) Distinction between an architecture and its implementation
e) Why orientation on service is the primary and essential quality of every commercial or non-profit organisation
f) 22 Business Scenarios/cases that the Business Architects usually have to deal with in their daily practice
g) Emerging requirements for qualification of a Business Architect role.
Travis Cain
Travis Cain is currently Business Architect Director within Dell Business Transformation Office.
Previous roles include: Enterprise Architect for Software and Digital Fulfillment at Dell Corporation and IT Solutions Delivery Manager with Capio Solutions.
Business Architecture and how it enables Business Transformation
“Since the mid-2000s, organizational change management and transformation have become permanent features of the business landscape.”
I’ll explain how Business Architecture can accelerate and enable your Business Transformation.
Key Takeaways from the talk:
- How to recognize the need for Business Architecture in your organization
- How to organize your Business Transformation strategies to drive your IT roadmap (framework and key attributes)
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About Iasa
Formally known as the International Association for Software Architects, we have changed our name to be just Iasa Global, a non-profit association for ALL IT Architects. Iasa Global is headquartered in beautiful Austin, TX but our reach is global with multiple chapters around the world.
Established in 2002, the association is committed to improving the quality of the IT architecture industry by developing and delivering standards, education programs and developing accreditation programs and services that optimize the development of the architecture profession. Iasa membership consists of approximately 80,000 members located in over 50 countries.
It is the mission of Iasa to make architecture the most educated, capable, and recognized profession in the world. Iasa works to accomplish this by advancing proven standards and best practices that help architects in their daily jobs and help organizations to best utilize architects in executing their technology strategies.
Iasa exists to support the development of the architecture profession as a whole. Our association seeks to address several challenges that are present in the field of architecture today:
- A lack of organizational resources targeted at the architect in their daily role.
- A lack of common definition for fundamental architect skill sets.
- Variability of the architect role across organizations.
- Difficulty in finding like-minded and similarly skilled specialists to interact with on a peer-to-peer basis.
- The challenge of categorizing types of architects and evaluating competence.
Iasa was founded to address such uncertainty and strives to enable individual architects to set a career path and follow that career path across organizations in a way that other professions may take for granted.
Paul Preiss – Iasa Founder & CEO
During his tenure at Iasa, Paul has taken it from a single user group with 50 members to an influential global organization with over 80,000 in its professional network. He orchestrated the development of dozens of chapters and leaders in over 50 countries. He brought Iasa to the forefront of the architect profession and employs staff around the world in the growth of the organization. He led the development of the Iasa Board of Education, the Certified IT Architect Professional (CITA-P), the Iasa skills curriculum and is actively working with universities, governments and other professional bodies to stabilize the profession of IT architecture.
Prior to Iasa, Paul was the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a large digital asset management company. His global experience stems from the time he spent in Japan as the Chief Architect in Dell Pan Asia. He has worked for some of the largest companies and on many of the largest projects ever delivered including projects for DHL, Sears, IBM, and others. Paul has a bachelor’s degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin.